David A. Wheeler scripsit: > 1. The sequence ".," is currently interpreted as a symbol (as does > guile!), which isn't correct for Common Lisp:
This is a gray area for Scheme anyway. I don't have my full test suite set up at the moment, but Guile's behavior is unusual: given b => 312, only Bigloo, Shoe, Dream, Scheme 7, Elk, Sizzle, Dfsch agree with Guile in evaluating `(a .,b) as (a .,b), treating ".,b" as a symbol. By contrast, Racket, Gauche, MIT, Scheme48/scsh, Kawa, Chibi, SCM, Chez, STklos, KSi, Scheme 9, BDC, Rep, Schemik, Oaklisp, FemtoLisp, Inlab, Owl Lisp return (a . 312), the same as Common Lisp. Chicken returns (a |.| 312). For Vicare, Ypsilon, Mosh, and probably the other R6RS systems, it's a syntax error; likewise for SigScheme (which explicitly calls it a compatibility issue). TinyScheme, XLisp, SXM don't support quasiquote. I'd go with the Common Lisp behavior in all cases, and then have a Guile-specific feature if you really want it. -- A rabbi whose congregation doesn't want John Cowan to drive him out of town isn't a rabbi, http://www.ccil.org/~cowan and a rabbi who lets them do it co...@ccil.org isn't a man. --Jewish saying ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Minimize network downtime and maximize team effectiveness. Reduce network management and security costs.Learn how to hire the most talented Cisco Certified professionals. Visit the Employer Resources Portal http://www.cisco.com/web/learning/employer_resources/index.html _______________________________________________ Readable-discuss mailing list Readable-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/readable-discuss
